When Boy Culture hit the film fest circuit in 2006 (we played Tribeca, Outfest and many, many more), it was a dream come true for me — a movie based on my novel was actually being seen. In 2007, it went to the next level, achieving an international run in movie theaters.

Now, in the final days of the Kickstarter meant to rev up a 10-years-later sequel — Boy Culture: The Series — I'm looking back at a few pics from the first go-round ...

Singer Steve Grand — a friend of mine set to make his acting debut in Boy Culture: The Series — had granted a frank interview to Attitude, in which he talks about his dependence on alcohol 18 months after quitting.

“I woke up in my own urine in the bed of a person who I don't even think particularly likes me. But he was the only person who came up in the recent messages on my phone so was the one they called, and he took care of me,” he recalls of his lowest moment. “That was the last straw for me.”